‘We are guilty of spending our rainy-day fund in sunny weather’: Top economists, historians unite to urge action on $38 trillion national debt

"The day will come when the boiling water finally kills the frog," an essay published by the Peter G. Petersen Foundation ...
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Trump’s DOGE savings dwarfed by Medicare, Social Security spending, watchdog finds

A conservative watchdog says Trump’s much-hyped DOGE cuts are a drop in the bucket compared to America’s ballooning entitlement spending. OpenTheBooks, a conservative fiscal watchdog group, released ...
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Senate votes 60 to 40 to reopen the government

The United States Senate voted 60–40 late Monday night to approve a short-term funding bill aimed at ending the longest ...

The last government shutdown was the longest in nearly 50 years. Here are all the recent shutdowns in one chart

The US federal government remains shut down with a spending deal to reopen still out of reach on Capitol Hill. Here’s how ...
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US House passes Senate-approved spending package to end longest government shutdown

The US House has approved a Senate-backed spending package, paving the way to end the nation’s longest-ever government shutdown after weeks of gridlock.